Ahvenamaa

Estonian

Ahvenamaa lipp

Ahvenamaa kaart

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from ahven (“perch”) + maa (“land”), the first term can possibly be derived from Proto-Norse ᚨᚺᚹᚨᛚᚨᚾᛞ (ahwaland, “water-land”). See Finnish Ahvenanmaa for further etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑhvenɑˌmɑː/, [ˈɑhvenɑˌmɑː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: Ah‧ve‧na‧maa

Proper noun

Ahvenamaa (genitive Ahvenamaa, partitive Ahvenamaad)

1. Åland (an autonomous province of Finland; capital and largest city: Mariehamn)

   Ahvenamaale ― to Åland

   Ahvenamaal ― in Åland

   Ahvenamaalt ― from Åland

2. Åland (an archipelago in the Baltic Sea, Finland)

Declension

Declension of Ahvenamaa (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Ahvenamaa	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Ahvenamaa
genitive			—
partitive		Ahvenamaad	—
illative		Ahvenamaasse	—
inessive		Ahvenamaas	—
elative		Ahvenamaast	—
allative		Ahvenamaale	—
adessive		Ahvenamaal	—
ablative		Ahvenamaalt	—
translative		Ahvenamaaks	—
terminative		Ahvenamaani	—
essive		Ahvenamaana	—
abessive		Ahvenamaata	—
comitative		Ahvenamaaga	—

References

• Ahvenamaa in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “Ahvenamaa”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN